What they have managed to do is waste almost $800,000 in taxpayer dollars chasing yet another fruitless conservative witch-hunt designed to smear one of our nation’s most famous reproductive healthcare providers in their incessant war on women and their right to agency of their own bodies.

The Committee has spent $300,000 so far and has demanded another $500,000 – 80% of the House’s supplemental funding – which has been approved, as per a congressional aide. Ranking member Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) loudly condemned the funding request and the investigation as a whole, saying that “this has not been—nor will it ever be—a fact-based investigation. Instead the Panel is being run as a taxpayer-funded arm of anti-abortion groups, in pursuit of a partisan, anti-science, and anti-health care agenda. Enough is enough.”

It just goes to show where the priorities of House Republicans lie – in lieu of any actual governance, they’d rather spend hard-earned tax payer dollars on absurd religious inquisitions and chasing baseless conspiracy theories.

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Colin Taylor is the managing editor of Occupy Democrats. He graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor's degree in history and political science. He now focuses on advancing the cause of social justice and equality in America.

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